'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches both.

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

The world wants to be deceived.

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.